Journal-box.



G. W. LEWIS.

JOURNAL B0X. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29, 1909.

946,287. Patented Jan.11,191'. F92, 7-

s ll/Wl Ilm lGEORGE W. LEWIS, OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA J OURNAL-B 0X.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan, itt, it'tl.

Application led January '29, 1909, Serial No. 475,046.

To all whom it may concern:

'I Se it known that I, Grenen IV. Lewis, a l citizen of the United States, residing' at,

Portsmouth, in the county of Norfolkand State of Virginia, hai'e invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Journal- Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to pro- Q vide a journal box or axlebox for use on railway -car trucks, wherein an economical distribution of the oil in the waste-receiving space is made, and whereby the journal may be properly lubricated with a very small quantity of waste.

The invention consists of a journal-box, theupper portion of which is or may be of any ordinary or approved construction, and

the lower portion of which is made with a V bottom for a length not less than the length of the journal, and provided with oil and waste-receiving cavities atfront and rear, all as I will proceed now more particularly to set forth and tinally to claim.`

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 isa side elevation of a journal-box embodying the improvements. Fig'. 2 is a longitudinal central section thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken substantially in the plane of line A, Fig. 2, and looking t-oiard the bottomv of the box., Fig. 4 is a transverse section `taken substantially in the plane of line B, Fig. 2. Fig. is a rear end elevation.

The upper portion of the box with the necessary provisions for the reception of the arch-bar, the key and brass, and the dust-guard where desired, and the bolt receptacles, may be of any usual or approved construction, and are herein so shown. The mouth may haveoutwardly beveled lips to cooperate with a complemental lid, but these features are the invention of another, and are not herein claimed.

The bottom of the box is of an essential novel construction, as I will proceed now to describe. A

'The fore part- 1 of the bottom affords a cavity for the reception of waste and lubricant, and just back of this forefpart the sides of the box are slanted inwardly and rearwardly so as to make the doubly-inclined walls 2, and these doubly-inclined walls are, continued rearwardly in the shaped bottom walls 3 which meet at the bottom ot' the box and substantially'in the plane of the axis of the journal, so as to provide a V shaped trough, as it were, beneath the axle journal el, shown in dotted lin-es in Fig. 2, and thereby permit the box to be packed with waste not only beneath the'journal, but about its sides; thcdouble incline of the walls Q admitting of the insertion of the waste back of the button of the journal-in the most etticient manner and in a very eas way. At the extreme r ar of the box the v shaped bottom takes a dip, as at 5, which forms an internal cavity 6 extending across the apex of the -V and part way up each side, as indicated by the full lines in Figs.

l, 2 and 3 and by the dotted lines in Figs.v

t and 5. rI`his cavity 6 atiords a receptacle for waste so that the axle may be packed around its collar, and thus the necessity for a dust-guard largely obviated. Where a dust-guard is not intended to be employed, the dust-guard pocket 7 may be omitted. W'here the dust-guard is employed, its lower end will be shaped to conform substantially to the shape of the rear end of the box.

This box is designed to conform to lliaster Car Builders standards, and it is substantially so shown in the drawings.

In my Patent No. 896,998, dated August 25, 1908, I have shown and described a journal-box with a V shaped bottom, and a front oil and waste-receiving chamber, and the ad-v vantages of the invention set forth in said patent apply with equal force tothe invention ofthis present case, and in addition the present invention by its provision of the doubly-inclined walls at the front or" the V bottom permits the freer and fuller packing of the journal with waste, and the provision of the internal cavity at the, rear enables A '1, and from the sides ofthe box, and from the Walls of the V'shaped bottom, but, on the contrary, the Walls 2 join these parts by vanishing into them.

What I claim is '1. A journal-box, having its lower portion provided with a front oil and waste receptacle which, merges in a V shaped bottom IOO low the place where. the journal d in ueee said receptacle and the e seid l! Shaped bottom connected (lowly-inclined Walls.

O e journal-box, having its lower por l, ltion provided *with a front oil and waste receptacle, and a, V shaped bottoni extending from said front oil and Waste receptacle rearwardly7 andwalls connecting said receptacle and bottom inclined inwardly and rearwardly to provide for the etlieient and easy packing or' the nib of the journal,

i3. A journal-box7 havingits lower portion provided with a front oil and Waste receptaele which rnerges in a v shaped bottoni arranged below the place where the journal would extend in use7 the front of the said l! shaped bottoni having ,loubly/inelined Walls, and im rear having a V shaped dip 'which furnishes an internal wasste-1eee.iving receptacle at el. fr join-1mifoon liaviirig an oil and Waste i the front of its lower portion, l

and nextJ adjacentthereto a V shaped bottom connected with the receptacle by walls slanting inwardly and rearwardly, said v' shaped bottoni terminating at the rear in e transf 'verse V shaped cavity extending below said bottoni.

5. A journal-box, having an oil and Waste receptacle at the liront ol' its lower portion, and next adjacent thereto a V shaped bottom connected with the receptacle by walls slanting inwardly and rearwardly, Said V shaped bottom terminating at the rear in a transverse V shaped cavity extending below s'aid bottom and up into the sides and adapted to receive Waste for packing around the collar of the journal.

.ln teetiniony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of rTanuary A. D.

GEORGE W. .lJElVlS lVitnesses NORMAN CASSELL, SAM P. VJIGG. 

